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...Beautifier (MODERN LIVING)-Portrait of a Lady Bountiful: philanthropist. Oxonian, art collector, known to New Yorkers as the city's unofficial green thumb, now deeply involved in the White House conference on American beauty. She is Mary Lasker, the kind of woman who, when she sends flowers, may send 40,000 daffodils...
Hundreds of letters have poured into the White House from garden-club la dies, Sunday drivers, bird watchers, country editors, city mayors, and all manner of green-thumb lobbyists. Residents of Wayland, Mass., held an art show to dramatize the need for cleaning up the town dump. Missouri's Governor Warren Hearnes offered prizes for the best dogwood-redbud plantings in a statewide prettification program...
There have been 16 ounces (Latin undo) to the English pound (Latin pondus) ever since the Romans invaded Britain MCMXXII years ago. The yard is 36 inches long because England's Henry I (1100-1135) decreed that it should equal the distance from a man's outstretched thumb to his nose. Indeed the whole British system of weights and measures is fraught with tradition, and for that reason it is frightfully hard to work with, as generations of British schoolchildren, agonizing over gills, pecks and rods, have learned...
...again, to say only that he calls up the child murderer with a twist of the thumb is to overlook his more substantial accomplishment. He's on stage the length of the play, and never falters. He works well with the succession of characters who confront him. And he has the finesse not to waste himself in the early scenes. I only caught on to a few of his bits at the very...
...Surfin' and Hang Ten (toes over the edge of the surf board), the Beach Boys?three brothers, a cousin and a neighbor?have sold more than 2 million records, grossed as much as $25,000 for one concert in Sacramento. They write their own songs, following one rule of thumb: "We picture the U.S. as one great big California...